Charles Simon Favart

A lettre de cachet was issued against him but he fled to Strasbourg and found concealment in a cellar. He had grown nearly blind in his last days and died in Paris. He provided many pieces anonymously for the lesser theatres and first put his name to La Chercheuse d'esprit which was produced in 1741.

Favart reworked Rinaldo di Capua's La Zingara as La Bohemienne. A lettre de cachet was issued against him but he fled to Strasbourg and found concealment in a cellar. By their united talents and labours the Opéra-Comique rose to such a height of success that it aroused the jealousy of the rival Comédie-Française and was suppressed.